That's very nice, thank you! Actually we are about to post about the AJL directory on ha-Safran and talk about it in the AJL virtual meetings.
Hope you are well. Kol tuv, On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:46 PM Jacqueline Benefraim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I hope you are safe and well. > > I've always just been someone who reads this listserve, but I'm not really > qualified to make contributions. In any event, I brought home a ton of > work, enough to keep me busy until May since we have 2 weeks off for > Passover. > > I thought that maybe you've noticed that some new posts by librarians I > haven't seen posting to HaSafran for a long time. I thought since you're > working on the directory of Judaica libraries, you should at least look at > the institutions that have responded. > > By the way, did I ever let you know that Caron at NLI > [email protected] has a directory? Maybe you can combine your > efforts. I know many NLI librarians are working from home. You can mention > that you got her email from Ahava, who was at last year's conference. > > Kol tuv, > > Jackie > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:52 PM Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated. >> >> One of my big projects at work has been generating tasks for teleworkers, >> particularly for catalogers that are print-dependent and new to remote >> work, and now find themselves almost idle. >> >> I have a proposal: can we find things we could invest time in, as a >> group? If nothing else, I would like to start this discussion. >> >> Potential ideas -- >> >> >> >> >> 1. >> >> Hebrewbooks bib records - unlike HathiTrust, Hebrewbooks does not set >> high standards for its metadata. We could revisit the existing records and >> enrich them. At least for now, these are open and available for all, they >> appear on WorldCat and our patrons make use of them constantly. We could >> take advantage of this less-than-ideal situation. >> 2. >> >> We could add links to existing print bibs pointing to Hebrewbooks or >> other digital repositories (‘also available online...”). >> 3. >> >> NACO authorities with “provisional” vernacular - in many cases >> authority files have multiple vernacular Hebrew and Yiddish versions of >> names. Some of them would require having the item in hand, but some are >> just mistakes and typos added programmatically. >> 4. >> >> Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names. Anybody can do this, >> it doesn’t need NACO clearance. It has a definite impact on LinkedData >> environments, it links to VIAF, etc. >> 5. >> >> Work on your Merge independence, either as an individual or as an >> institution. We are not sure OCLC will be able to send us lots of Hebrew >> examples, but you have some time to browse Connexion and find sets you >> would want to merge. >> 6. >> >> Other ideas? >> >> >> >> >> Neil >> >> -- >> >> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his) >> >> *Senior Catalog Librarian* >> >> *Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging* >> >> >> University of Maryland >> >> 2200 McKeldin Library >> >> College Park, MD 20742 >> >> Phone (301) 405-9337 >> >> [email protected] >> >> ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Heb-naco mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco >> > > > -- > Jackie Ben-Efraim > > *"Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." **Micha Yosef > Berdichevsky 1865-1921* > > Special Collections Librarian > Ostrow Library > American Jewish University > 15600 Mulholland Drive > Los Angeles, CA 90077 > -- *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his) *Senior Catalog Librarian* *Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging* University of Maryland 2200 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 Phone (301) 405-9337 [email protected] ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
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